Actually most of the people I know are NOT East Asians in Finance, but subdee has that conception of me firmly rooted in her head, partially because that's how we met, and partially because I'm one of the more capitalist people in her social circle.
I think people in cities just don't tend to think outside their city demarcations, and for a long time, anything outside of Manhattan was not *really* part of New York City, and that impression has stuck despite any urban development in the past 20 years. That tends to be the case even if you're a foreign national and have traveled a lot - a global view doesn't necessarily equate to a broad local view.
Of the Finance professionals I know, most of them are kind of out of touch with reality, especially those that haven't looked for a job in the past 2 years. They just work their 14 hour days and not much of anything else (echoing Petronia).
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Date: 2010-05-17 04:59 pm (UTC)I think people in cities just don't tend to think outside their city demarcations, and for a long time, anything outside of Manhattan was not *really* part of New York City, and that impression has stuck despite any urban development in the past 20 years. That tends to be the case even if you're a foreign national and have traveled a lot - a global view doesn't necessarily equate to a broad local view.
Of the Finance professionals I know, most of them are kind of out of touch with reality, especially those that haven't looked for a job in the past 2 years. They just work their 14 hour days and not much of anything else (echoing Petronia).